A Crucible In Which Fate Throws Man

Try to reach that maturity in which you fully appreciate what you have, even if what you have corresponds to the requirements of high spirituality, not the requirements of your own logic.

Life began to be hard for Marius. It hadn’t been enough for him to eat his clothes and watch. He was now feeding on what is called fried patience. It’s a terrible thing, which means days without bread, nights without sleep, evening hours without candles, hearth without fire, whole weeks without work, hopeless future, clothes torn at the elbows, an old hat that girls laugh at, the door on which you find her locked up because you did not pay the rent, the impudence of the porter and the bartender, the mockery of the neighbors, all kinds of humiliation, suppressed dignity, acceptance of any kind of work, disgust, bitterness, discouragement. Marius learned to swallow them all and found that they were often the only things you ate.

At that moment, when the man needs pride, because he needs love, he felt ridiculed, because he was badly dressed, and funny, because he was poor. At the age when youth filled his heart with royal pride, he often looked down at his torn boots and knew the unjust offenses and the humiliating shame of misery. Wonderful and great trial, from which the weak come out vile, and the strong sublime. A crucible in which fate throws man whenever he wants to have a brat or a demigod !

Because in small battles a lot of great deeds are committed. There are powers, stubborn and unknown, who fight in the shadows, step by step, with the indelible onslaught of needs and filth. The noble and mysterious victory, which no eye sees, which no fame rewards, and no fanfare greets. Life, misery, loneliness, abandonment, poverty are battlefields that have their heroes, unknown heroes, sometimes bigger than famous heroes.

In this way strong and powerful natures are born. Misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a true mother, poverty gives birth to the power of the soul and the mind; despair is the nurse of pride; misfortune is good milk for the generous.*

Can you turn the content of a high teaching about life into a deep rooting in spirituality that gives you special value and uniqueness through the limits you can bear?

Anyone can adopt, at will, a change that he sees in the world, with the only condition that he does not unjustly claim the victory of a tendency of sensitivity in another way of manifestation of the concrete of life.

This is the sensitivity of a sad life: suppressed dignity, the hopeless future, the humiliating shame of misery, and this is why it is necessary for man to develop an adequate manifestation of emotional feelings, so that the sensitivity of his character is not reduced to trials and struggles without any support, without success, without use.

Your battlefield must be filled quickly with moods that know no breaks, with the harmony between what you say, what you think and what you do, so that his pride does not suffer, or if he suffers, he suffers without it leaving traces in one direction or another. And if man’s life is hard because of want, it is because the whole battlefield on which he stands is crushed by the soul’s unwillingness to unite with faith and to move on to perfection, to salvation, to new horizons and new accomplishments.

Here is the content of a high teaching about life: analyze your shortcomings in terms of the success you hope to achieve, so that you rise above what you think you are, above what affects you, above what holds you captive.

And sensitivity is sometimes treated through the attitude of seeing especially the empty side of the glass, the unfavorable sides of a situation, in the perspective of a constant resemblance to a seed that suffers and dies in the ground, but from which a new plant emerges.

The small struggles you face with life are the only persistent characteristics of your character, highlighting your endurance to recognize the reality in which you must strive to distinguish things, to reveal the meanings of a world in a terrible transformation.

Sensitivity, false spirituality, is the pride of being yourself in a situation that requires you to be someone else. Always remember the infinite power of the soul that can leave behind disappointments and failures, towards finding those things that you lack and that, precisely because you lack them, give you the impetus to immerse them in existence, not in thought.

Maybe you see life as a canvas, full of bold colors, or as an endless journey, or as a potential danger, a difficult process you go through and you do not know what awaits you. Is it because you immerse yourself too much in a thought that has become accustomed to including in the perception of reality everything that serves your idealized prejudices, dogmas and images?

True spirituality is closely linked to the pride of feeling strong in any circumstance that pulls you below your limits of enduring life.

The emotions that create blockages or limits in everything you want to happen to you, that you express with difficulty in relationships with other people, are the same emotions that keep you captive in past life experiences. Even if they are considered unwanted or socially unacceptable, even if they constantly try and follow you in life, always remember that a butterfly that does not open its wings and does not fly has no purpose in the world.

A Crucible In Which Fate Throws Man is measured by the intensity of their own emotions and feelings, to which you must pay special attention if you want to adapt to the challenges and vicissitudes of life. All challenges and vicissitudes are melted into a crucible of will that you must use to harden your character, because the fate of a strong man to measure by the intensity of the emotions and feelings he faces every day.

* Note: Victor Hugo - The Miserables, State Literature Publishing House for Literature and Art, 1960.